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🎙️ Welcome back to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where academia meets curiosity, and research isn’t just read… it’s heard. 🎧✨
Today, we’re vibing to a whole new frequency — a frequency that sings about markets, rhymes with returns, and beats to the rhythm of behavioral finance. 🕺📈🎶
Our featured paper? 🧐
"Understanding Financial Economics Through Music Sentiment" — authored by the brilliant David Sadka, and published in the prestigious Review of Behavioral Finance, an ABDC B-listed journal with a serious academic punch. 🧠🏛️
📅 Published just recently on June 30th, 2025, by none other than Emerald Insights, this study is turning heads and tuning minds.
So, what happens when you mix the lyrical soul of Billboard’s Hot 100 with the cold data of stock market returns?
This research dives deep — using regression analysis and time-series techniques — to decode how our collective musical mood, measured through lyrics from 1962 to now, affects consumer sentiment, especially across age and income groups. 💵👵🧑🎤
And the result? It’s not just noise.
It’s signal.
📊 From evolving emotional patterns to correlations with the momentum factor in stock returns, this paper doesn’t just study music — it listens to what the economy is humming beneath the surface.
But here’s the question to leave you wondering…
👉 If the songs we stream reflect our inner world, could your next playlist predict your portfolio? 🎼📉📈
Huge thanks to David Sadka for this fascinating research and to Emerald Insights for publishing such meaningful academic work in a top-tier journal.
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Until next time — stay curious, stay critical, and never forget to revise and resubmit. 📝🔥
Reference
Sadka, D. (2025), "Understanding financial economics through music sentiment", Review of Behavioral Finance, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/RBF-07-2024-0204
Parent work: Edmans, A., Fernandez-Perez, A., Garel, A., & Indriawan, I. (2021). Music sentiment and stock returns around the world. Journal of Financial Economics, 145(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2021.08.014
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